STOTHARD, Thomas, an English painter, was born in London on the 17th of August 1755. He was originally apprenticed to a pattern drawer of brocaded silk, but subsequently took to painting, and gained high repute by his compositions for Bell's British Poets and the Novelist's Magazine. He was made a Royal Academician in 1794; and became librarian to the Royal Academy in 1812. His more important works were his "Canterbury Pilgrims," his "Flitch of Bacon," his "Fête Champêtre," and his "Wellington Shield." He besides illustrated Boydell's Shakespeare, Roger's Poems and Italy, and the Complete Angler of Isaac Walton; as well as having designed part of the ceiling of the Signet Library in Edinburgh. His compositions number in all upwards of 5000, some 3000 of which have been engraved. He followed Mortimer somewhat slavishly at the outset of his career, but when he came to his maturity as a painter he displayed simplicity and grace in a high degree. He died in London on the 27th of April 1834. His life was written in 1851 by his daughter-in-law. He had a numerous family, of whom the most noted was Charles Alfred, noticed in the previous article.